Ernie's Blog

As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing along with recordings. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy in 1921, but the opportunity to play and hear jazz in nearby Chicago caused frequent truancy and eventually his expulsion. After several months working for his father in Davenport, he turned to a career in music.

Bix Beiderbecke playing the original solo piano version of his composition - "In A Mist."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn12GFfnTBA&feature=player_embedded

"Candlelights," "Flashes," and "In the Dark" are other piano compositions transcribed but never recorded by Beiderbecke